Example sentences of "they 've [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's , what they 've done is they 've closed er er , erm branch , an office massive office in London and they 've moved them all over to Leeds because they ca n't get the people to take jobs in London so they 've transferred it all to Leeds , and erm there 's a chance of erm getting promotion , well , a very good chance of getting promotion down there . |
| 2 | I 'm gon na see if they 've saved me any . |
| 3 | The other thing is if the school children walk round , and through where they 're supposed to go , it still goes past Wide Pond , and they 've eroded all the grass where they 've made their own little footpaths through , I do n't think going that going the other way would make it any different . |
| 4 | Professional musicians are mostly a cynical lot — they 've heard it all before and played it all before too . |
| 5 | And they 've given her half of it are n't they ? |
| 6 | And they 've given me that . |
| 7 | In the meantime they 've given me this to go on with , ’ he answered , throwing our ration card across the table . |
| 8 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 9 | That 's why , ’ said Mahmoud , tapping the bundle of papers , ‘ they 've given me this . |
| 10 | He would have them sell some peculiar stock , saying : " They 've given us this to get rid of , as we 're the top team . |
| 11 | got friends to go in messing about all the time and they 've , al everything that she had that were decent they 've ruined it all . |
| 12 | But viewers may get the feeling they 've seen it all before . |
| 13 | A lot of the parents know what they 're talking about , they 've seen it all already , what we 're going through . |
| 14 | There 's this flexible transparent tube , the most unpleasant thing ever done to me in my life … you just have to tell yourself they 've seen it all before … |
| 15 | No , they 've seen it all . |
| 16 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 17 | Yeah , its probably cos they 've done it all before so , they know , they know what goes on there . |
| 18 | Oh I do n't know since they 've done it all up , no probably not . |
| 19 | No , looks as though they 've done you some sort of . |
| 20 | Looks as if they 've cleared it all up , he 's looking all around . |
| 21 | They 've formed their own band , and have just released their first single . |
| 22 | Well they reckon they 've , they 've split it all ready for privatizing . |
| 23 | Since then they 've built their own homes out of the earth … and Oxfam has put in a desperately needed water supply . |
| 24 | They 've decorated their own an ‘ aggressive blue ’ . |
| 25 | she was taken out of work one morning and now they 've bought her another car and I do n't where it 's happened but somebody 's gone into the back of her |
| 26 | And they 've started their own helpline for solvent abusers called Stepping Stones . |
| 27 | But erm they 've told them that they better keep to the peace agreement . |
| 28 | So they 've told you that already . |
| 29 | oh , you know , that 's , that 's it because for thirteen years they have dismantled the social system , that 's what they 've done in thirteen years , so they ca n't say overnight , we 'll put it all back because there is n't , there , there is n't the finance there because they 've spent it all to have done what they 've done |
| 30 | The two usual options are either a big block , like on the back of a Strat , which is really hard to deal with , or there 's nothing , because they 've sanded it all away . |